Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeasement of Negro voters, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt also contributed last week. Having resigned from the D. A. R. after they barred colored Contralto Marian Anderson from Constitution Hall in Washington (TIME, March 6), she promised to appear this summer on a program with Miss Anderson in Richmond...
...Prentice-Hall...
Because the Daughters of the American Revolution recently denied the use of their Washington hall to Negro Singer Marian Anderson, and because of their consistently illiberal stand on political, economic and constitutional questions, we recommend that their name be changed to the Defenders of the American Reaction...
...Negro show like its Federal Theatre rival, The Hot Mikado kisses the Old Boys good-by at about the eighth bar of the first song, turns Titipu into a dance hall before latecomers are in their seats, makes Yum-Yum, Pitti-Sing and Peep-Bo carry on like three little maids from reform school, and finishes Act I in an uproar when Katisha busts in, no hatchet-faced termagant, but an eye-rolling, hip-shaking, torch-singing Red Hot Mama...
...might have fainted, but his teammates grabbed him, hoisted him to their shoulders, marched him triumphantly around the hall. "I don't know how I did it," he kept saying. "I never did it before, and I probably never will again. Blame it on luck." Then, back on his feet again, he rolled out his singles turn with 173-166 for a 639, 75 pins behind the leader, scarcely worth marking...